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Archive for April, 2004

Welcome to Will Gore, Congrats to Sarah Wardle

Welcome this week to William Gore, who submitted a really touching poem about one of the World’s greats, Garrincha (see below). I’d also like to take this opportunity to extend our congratulations to Sarah Wardle, a poet and lecturer at Middlesex University, who was recently appointed as poet-in-residence at Tottenham Hotspur, at least until the […]

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to faith in sometimes……… (survival of the wealthiest)

remember when we used to say survival of the fittest these days wealth is the new fitness it seems but what is wealth skill talent money or humour? sometimes – in order to survive we look to wealth – that which we have and that which we don’t just to survive to rise above and […]

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Introducing Pat Ingoldsby

It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to Pat Ingoldsby, one of my favourite Irish poets. Pat is a familiar sight out and about in Dublin, where he sells his self-published poetry books direct to the general public. At the same time, he has his senses cocked, picking up on the flavour of the […]

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Our Statement on the Atko Affair

Walter Tull and Family History It was a typically dank Remembrance Day, When I biked out to Lydiard Millicent, Through Wiltshire lanes and sodden yellow leaves; I went to see Mr. Arthur Tull, a relation of my mum’s, Who had a family tree going back, he reckoned, To the 18th century seed drill Tull, good […]

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The Tinkerman and Cartesian Dualism

Claudio Ranieri’s Football philosophies Spring from an artesian Well being Cartesian, For unlike Jaap Staam, “I tink therefore I am.”

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Welcome to …. Sally Newland & Rosie B

Conscious of the fact that poems don’t get to stay too long on the home page, because of the increasing popularity of the site, I’m going to use this editorial slot to occasionally showcase some of our new talent. No favouritism is intended. Just a chance for newcomers to shine a little longer. This week, […]

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ON FOOTBALL LOVE ACTUALLY

never thought love could feel this way never thought i’d hear it or ever see the day sometimes the words aren’t deep enough to say it’s just football love actually all of that stuff you just love to put me through all of those last-minute crazy things you do all of that torment that makes […]

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Welcome to …. Ralph Dartford

Please excuse my total impartiality here : Chelsea 3 Arsenal 2 yyyyyyeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss!!!!! Conscious of the fact that poems don’t get to stay too long on the home page, because of the increasing popularity of the site, I’m going to use this editorial slot to occasionally showcase some of our new talent. No favouritism is intended. […]

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/news/2004/04/